The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-06-23
THE JUBILEE.
A Brilliant and Titled Audience of
Kings and Princes IN West
Minister Abbey.
An Imposing Procession, Including
England's Queen and the
Royal Family.

LONDON, June 21.-The first day of
the fifty-first year of the reign of
Queen Victoria over Great Britain
opened with perfect summer weather
in London. Thousands of people
who yesr erday selected locations along the
route of to-day's procession, in order to
retain them, occupied them all night. At
8 o'clock the line of route was on each
side a compact mass of people. The
scene at Westminster Abbey was most
brilliant. Every seat was filled
and every person present was
distinguished person. When the identities
were enumerated, it seemed as if every
locality, the world over, had sent one or
more of it's representative personages to
do honor to Englands queen on Britain's
greatest holiday. There never, probably,
in modern times, assembled under one
roof an audience 80 we'll, so brilliantly
arrayed. Every man present was entitled
to wear uniform or decoration, or had
both on, new or FURNISHED up.
When this audience were all seated
the scene presented was in
comparable. When the sun
shone brightly through the noble stained
windows of the abbey, its rays fell upon
the unaccustomed sight, and the picture
was indescribabls. This audience, banked
up as it was in the church, was anything
but sombre. For while, when all wer.
seated, there was quiet, but this was only
temporary and lasted only long enough to
enable people to locate one another; then
there was lisp of recognition and OF
gossip, and it graduated rapidly into 6
noisy hum.
4hn Marn nf SnlIShnru
queens prime minister, entered and pro-
ceeded to the place set apart for him, he
was cheered. When Gladstone was OBJ
served quietly edging hls way to his seat
he was also cheered. Such was the eager
ness of those who had secured places in
the audience at Westminster to be or
hand, that scores of lords and ladies re
paired to the edifice at an unnecessary
early hour without partaking of any
breakfast. 1t was a strange sight to SCI
TASKS and sandwiches exchanged in such {
crowd, and eagerly used by numberles
aristocrats unable longer to Withstand
hunger or thirst. This business wher
added to the hum at times seemed lrrever
ent even on jubilee day in Westminster.
The line of route was kept by nearl.
10000 troops, representing all branches
of the service and in addition 600 boyi
from the naval training ships were drawn
up at the base of the Nelson monument
The first of the royal procession wal
com posed of Indian princes and tev
minor German princes. Punctually a
Ills a. M, the queen, in an open carriag
drawn by eight ponies, emerged from the
palace gates. At the sight of her, thou
sands of voices were lifted up in cheers, tn
applause being accompanied by the musi
of many military bands stationed in from
of the palace. The queen did no
wear her state robes, but was d:esse
in black. The Prince on Wales
Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Connaugh
her sons; the Grown Prince Imperial @
Germany, the Marquis of Lorne, Primo
Christian, of Schlesweig, Holstein, an
Prince Henry. of Battenberg, her sons il
law, and Prince Albert Victor and Georg
of Wales, Prince Albert, of Edinburgh an
Prince William, of Prussia, her grand
sons, all rode in full uniform beside tn
queens coach as a body guard. Th
queens carriage was large on
of chocolate color, wheels rec
and royal arms in gol
emblazoned upon the panels. Red mo-
rocco harness was used for the horse
All the servants wore state livery of scar
let and gold. Other carriages containin
members of the royal family were of